Mubarak Akadiru, the son of a housemaid who was arrested by police detectives for the mvrder of a 62-year-old grandmother and former head teacher, Mrs Sidikat Adamolekun, in Arigidi Akoko, Ondo State, has told an Akure Magistrate Court why he k!lled her mother’s benefactor.
The defendant, who was 18 at the time, told the court that he repeatedly be@t the dece@sed’s skull with a wooden stool when she caught him while attempting to steal her phone.
He said, “As usual, I went to the house to work and I later came back to steal her Samsung phone. “Unfortunately, the dece@sed caught me after I’d stolen the phone.”
Simon Wada, a police prosecutor, told the court that the defendant committed the crime on November 14, 2023, at 11:30 am, at Simiileolowa Quarters in Arigidi Akoko.
Wada said the defendant allegedly k!lled the deceased by strik!ng her on the head with a wooden stool while stealing her Android Samsung phone worth N66,000.
According to the prosecution, the offence violates Section 319 of the Criminal Code, Cap. 37, Vol. 1, Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.
Credit: Daily Trust
